Alerted by a passer-by that bearded men with a black flag were acting suspiciously at a castle ruins in southern Sweden, police found to their relief that it wasn’t a group of Islamic State sympathizers but a meeting of hirsute do-gooders.

Europe’s climate chief has acknowledged for the first time that climate pledges made by national governments ahead of a major U.N. conference fall short of meeting the international goal of keeping global warming below 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit).

The European Union on Monday moved closer to suspending sanctions on Belarus following the central European nation’s release of political prisoners and a weekend election that was more transparent and calm than previous polls.